Dig straight down from the middle of the Gulf of Carpentaria 🌊 and you would come out on the exact opposite side of the globe — in open water in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊, off the coast of Brazil 🇧🇷. Below are the Gulf of Carpentaria's key facts and a closer look at its antipode.
| Area | 290,387 km² (112,119 sq mi) |
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| Bordering countries | Australia 🇦🇺 |
| Also written | Golfo de Carpentaria (es) · Golfe de Carpentarie (fr) · 卡奔塔利亚湾 (zh) · خليج كاربنتاريا (ar) · Карпентария (ru) · カーペンタリア湾 (ja) |
Taken from the middle of the Gulf of Carpentaria, that point sits at 14.9616° N, 41.4465° W. The nearest coast is Brazil 🇧🇷, roughly 1,611 km (1,001 miles) north-east — far enough out that no shore would be in sight.
The closest settlement of any size is Cayenne, France, about 1,631 km (1,013 miles) from the point.
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